NeverShoutNever! – Trouble (Chords)

February 10, 2009


NeverShoutNever! – Trouble (Chords)

I bet the tweenage girls are squealing themselves hoarse over wee Christofer Ingle and his magnificent hair. But in December he took time out from his punishing hair care routine to record an EP of ukulele pop songs Me & My Uke. And he’s currently recording an album with fellow ukulele-EP-releasing runtogetherbandnamefrontman Forrest Kline of Hellogoodbye.

Trouble is a fairly simple three chord affair. The only tricky thing is the chord inversions I think he’s using. You could make it easier by using the more standard chord shapes: 0331 for Eb and 2010 for F.

The strumming for the verses is dead easy as well. They’re all down strums. Just make sure you release the chord right after you’ve strummed it to get that sharp sound.

The strumming in the chorus is much trickier. It’s down, down, up, up, down, up. I’m experimenting with showing strumming patterns, so let me know if either of these make sense to you (top line counting, bottom line strumming):

1 … and … 2 …. and … 3 … and … 4 ….. and
down ……. down up ……….. up ….. down up

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
d .. d u .. u d u

For the first chord in the chorus you just play the Bb on the first strum, then you mute the strings (by resting your hand on them but not playing them) and strum the same pattern.

EXPECTING TO FIND CHORDS/TABS? Try clicking where it says the name of the song in red under the video.
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44 Responses to “NeverShoutNever! – Trouble (Chords)”

  1. Rennie on February 11th, 2009 12:27 am

    I honestly did squee a bit when I saw this. Haha.
    I was so excited to see that this guy had released a ukulele EP, but was too lazy to try to figure out the chords.
    Thanks for this!!!

  2. chris on February 11th, 2009 12:36 am

    his uke ep was 3 songs long and the last song was cheesy and well your biggest fan is a good song and trouble is okay but hm nice tab hopefully he takes out some more ukulele songs

  3. isaac on February 11th, 2009 6:57 am

    In conclusion: punctuation!

  4. cardboardfrog on February 11th, 2009 12:32 pm

    cheery, up beat and lovely.
    unforetunately it’s also instantly forgetable.
    good chords though mr ’shed.

  5. Donnie Bubbles on February 11th, 2009 1:58 pm

    On the strum notation: To make the count line up you have to use a fixed width font like Courier New, or add a weird number of spaces to make it line up. Personally, I find that harder to read. If you say it is 4/4, and that the strum is for a measure, I think

    d – d u – u d u

    is all the information I would need to understand the strum. Maybe use a capital D or U for emphasis on certain strokes?

  6. Woodshed on February 11th, 2009 8:19 pm

    Rennie: Glad to give you the squees!

    chris: I thought the last song was pretty good (in an Oh, It Is Love way). It’s definitely the most adventurous musically.

    isaac: ?!

    cbf: ‘Forgettable’ I’d agree with. But I think he has potential.

    Donnie: Thanks. I’m going to have to give this more thought.

  7. David on February 11th, 2009 8:53 pm

    Any form of strum notation is big help! Thanks

  8. Woodshed on February 11th, 2009 9:59 pm

    Thanks, David. I’m going to try to include more strumming suggestions. Particularly with the easier songs.

  9. Vincent on February 12th, 2009 2:01 am

    Hey Woodshed big fan of the website.

    just wondering have you seen this?
    http://www.epiphone.com/images/N_PeeWeePP-VS.jpg

    Theres gotta be a way to turn that into the coolest tenor ukulele of all time right? Something like putting a 4 string bridge on it or something as simple as taking off 2 strings and tuning to gcea.

  10. chris on February 12th, 2009 3:12 am

    hahaha i just think the whole did it hurt part kinda ruined it for me

  11. Woodshed on February 12th, 2009 6:55 pm

    Vincent: Thanks for the link. It’d be a lot of effort to go to. I think the closest looking uke would be the Stagg Les Paul copy.

    chris: I have to agree with you on that one. The lyrics are definitely cheesy.

  12. Vincent on February 12th, 2009 8:17 pm

    Cool thanks, that looks just like what the epiphone could be. If thats at NAMM 09 that means it should be coming out this spring/summer right?

  13. Forest Knauff on February 20th, 2009 6:23 am

    No srry but the chords are
    1 1 1 1 0
    1 3 1 3 1
    2 3 2 3 0
    3 3 3 3 2

  14. Woodshed on February 20th, 2009 7:04 am

    Forest: They seem to be exactly the same chords I wrote up. The only difference being a different inversion of F. It’s pretty clear he’s using the inversion on the chord chart and I mentioned the other inversion in the post. So I’m not sure what your problem is.

  15. paul on February 20th, 2009 10:33 pm

    I like his songs and i need to learn them on my uke.
    Im like popular at school with this shit
    Whats the chords? please anybody

  16. Woodshed on February 21st, 2009 4:35 pm

    paul: I’ll probably do the other two uke songs at some point. Your Biggest Fan is just C – G – F – C – G. All the way through except the Sha da part with is F.

  17. alex scgalia on February 23rd, 2009 5:02 am

    does anyone know the did it hurt chords

  18. Woodshed on February 23rd, 2009 10:00 pm

    alex: I should be putting it up on the blog at some point.

  19. alex scgalia on February 24th, 2009 10:23 pm

    coool

  20. Jasred Rang on February 27th, 2009 5:52 am

    Dude i love this song it kick total ASS. its the sweetest song on acustic ;0

  21. paige on March 31st, 2009 12:22 am

    you have no idea how easy you make things. haha, thank you!

  22. Woodshed on March 31st, 2009 11:21 am

    Glad it helped, paige. There’s more NSN coming up later today.

  23. Brittanynotbritt on April 10th, 2009 7:01 am

    Im new to this site, where on this page does it say the chords i am supposed to play for the song?

  24. Woodshed on April 10th, 2009 7:04 am

    Brittanynotbritt: Click the red letters underneath the video.

  25. Brittanynotbritt on April 10th, 2009 7:06 am

    wow im dumb, thanks

  26. Woodshed on April 10th, 2009 7:14 am

    Brittanynotbritt: Not at all. Loads of people miss it.

  27. Samantha on May 26th, 2009 12:47 am

    Thanks for much for this! I’ve just recently picked up my guitar again, and since Christofer uses simple chords I thought I’d try out some of his songs.

    Do you have the strumming pattern for Your Biggest Fan figured out, by chance? The chorus has me stuck.

  28. Samantha on May 26th, 2009 12:54 am

    Whoops, should have checked farther into the site. Nevermind, and thank you!

  29. Woodshed on May 26th, 2009 9:43 pm

    Samantha: Glad you managed to make sense of the strumming info.

  30. chelsy on July 6th, 2009 8:25 pm

    hey, your page is awesome!!
    but i’m having trouble with the chords in this song and ‘trouble’,
    can you give me pointers how to make these chords work, i dont see how it is possible to use 1 on 2 strings at once.
    any pointers would be helpful.
    thanks :)

  31. brittany on July 7th, 2009 7:49 am

    chelsy— you need to bar the two strings with one finger. just push the finger u need to use on the two strings you need to play.

  32. Woodshed on July 7th, 2009 5:49 pm

    chelsy: Here’s a picture of one finger on two strings. And here’s the full chord. Hope that helps.

    brittany: Thanks for your help.

  33. christian on August 11th, 2009 4:11 am

    what are the chords just say it or type it

  34. Woodshed on August 11th, 2009 1:36 pm

    christian: Click where it says “NeverShoutNever! – Trouble (Chords)” in red under the video.

  35. DktWlsn on August 17th, 2009 5:39 am

    Were are the chords????

  36. Woodshed on August 19th, 2009 10:58 am

    DktWIsn: See the comment right above yours.

  37. mathilde (: on September 3rd, 2009 12:46 pm

    I’m not such a fan of NeverShoutNever! but it always gets a smile at busking (: Thanks for putting it up (:

  38. Woodshed on September 3rd, 2009 6:14 pm

    matilde: The guy is definitely a big hit with the kids. I’ve seen so many people who want to get a uke because of him.

  39. Tony on September 6th, 2009 5:34 pm

    ya know I really wish you guys would tell me what the chords are! I’m new at this and I really don’t know what I’m doing. If they’re somewhere on this page then forgive me because I do not see them!

  40. Woodshed on September 13th, 2009 8:56 am

    Tony: Click where it says “NeverShoutNever! – Trouble (Chords)” in big red letters.

  41. sammy on October 3rd, 2009 11:53 pm

    i love this song this website is really cool great job. My friends and I always use it. Rock on Nevershoutnever

  42. Woodshed on October 4th, 2009 12:15 pm

    sammy: Thanks for the kind words.

  43. Brooke on October 4th, 2009 11:42 pm

    yea this is goos i totally agree with samy. we got ukes together and it totally hedps to have this website.

  44. Woodshed on October 5th, 2009 11:50 am

    Brooke: That’s! Glad you both found it useful.

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